Log Cabin Wood-Burning Sauna!

toomanykids · December 09, 2016, 09:39:00 AM

I'm admittedly a newbie, but have grand aspirations of lumber greatness. I'm in Charlottesville Virginia and am trying to plan a roughly 8' x 12' log cabin sauna. There is not much info out there so I'm coming to you all. I think I'm going to use white pine logs, scrounged through the state forestry rep and craigslist. I know I need to let them dry for at least a year to avoid settling. But just looking for tips and trying to get a fun sauna thread going. I plan to just use the logs as the interior, so no separate kiln-dried T&G or anything, maybe I'll screw in a few kiln dried 1x4s so any sap bleeding out of the logs doesn't burn me. I don't know what I'm doing! Help me out with design suggestions, flooring ideas, where to get the logs, type of stove to use (brand, fed from inside or outside sauna room), best log cabin methods/notches, etc!

Thanks everybody.

Magicman · December 09, 2016, 10:05:44 AM

Welcome to the Forestry Forum. Here are two: LINK and LINK

There are others. Search "sauna".

barbender · December 09, 2016, 11:46:13 AM

One of my friends is a sauna nut, and he lived in Forsythe, Georgia for about 5 years. He had to build himself a sauna down there, and his Georgia friends just couldn't make sense of why one would build a hut and put a wood stove in to make yourself sweat, when sweating is such a constant and natural occurance down there :D

starmac · December 09, 2016, 02:51:06 PM

I do not know how to find it, but I started a thread on this subject a year or so ago and got some great info, complete with pictures of several members saunas.